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‘Moderation' is full of provocative insights about modern life

Elaine Castillo's second novel, 'Moderation,' opens with a blistering portrait of social media's toxic underbelly. At the social media platform Reeden, moderators are charged with removing harmful content, and the graphic descriptions of this grisly material make it obvious why suicide, alcoholism and nervous breakdowns are occupational hazards. 'None of the white people survived,' Castillo notes matter-of-factly; the moderators who last at Reeden's Las Vegas site are almost all Filipina women, and the sharp depictions of linguistic and class distinctions among them will be familiar to readers of Castillo's striking debut, 'America Is Not the Heart.'